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Tuesday, 21 September 2010

Coffee Morning with THE LEPROSY MISSION

What an enjoyable morning I had today - every tuesday I go to our Churches Together 'Hope' Coffee morning - today it had a twist as we visited by James Grieg,our area co-ordinator for The Leprosy Mission.He showed 2 dvds which were very moving ..... one was about a young boy calledSanjaya who is 13 year old & is from Nepal who lives in constant pain BUT never complains. I would be overjoyed if some of my new blog friends would visitthe website http://www.leprosymission.org.ukand read about the wonderful work that they do - maybe even thinking if they could do something to help.I had a copy of the book ' The Island' by Victoria Hislop (what an amazing read) which was setin Greece on the island of Spinalonga and was centered around leprosy - my idea was that we would pass the book aroundand when you had read it,write your name in the front & pay £1.We only started this 3 weeks ago & only had one copy ..... if only I had thought of it earlier.as we still managed to raise £7.Overall today we raised £100.

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This is a great Mission and it is working so well, isn't it? I just can't get over how much the situation has improved since I was a child and helped at my grandma's Leprosy Mission coffee mornings! Thanks for reminding me how important their work still is. They have a very good Christmas Gift catalogue, if I remember rightly...